In your face: Sideline reporter gets hit before Texans-Packers

NFL Network reporter Ian Rapoport probably knows how the Texans feel after taking one for the broadcast team in Reliant Stadium on Sunday.

An errant pass in pregame warmups nailed Rapoport and made him a video sensation. NFL.com even posted an injury update on Monday, describing him as “shaken up.”

As for real TV news from the game, the Texans’ Nielsen rating in Houston for their lopsided loss to the Packers was down from their Monday night win over the Jets, but NBC’s major-market national rating for “Sunday Night Football” was up from a week ago.

In Houston, the game recorded a 32.6 Nielsen rating with a 46 share on KPRC (Channel 2), down from the 34.4 rating on ESPN and KHOU (Channel 11) for “Monday Night Football.” Sunday’s rating equals an average audience of 722,302 of Houston’s 2.2 million TV households. An average of 1.178 million viewers in Houston watched the game.

The national overnight of 12.6/20 was up from 11.7/19 for Chargers-Saints last week and from 11.2/17 for Vikings-Bears a year ago. In other Texas major markets, the game rated 16.6/26 in Austin, 14.6/24 in Dallas-Fort Worth and 13.3/20 in San Antonio. It rated 51.9/68 in Milwaukee.